Long waiting time is what upsets patients most. It wouldn’t be wrong if patient’s anxiety is directly related to the waiting time. Therefore, quick access to medical services is most appreciated and spending valuable time in front of the doctor’s office makes patients nervous and practitioners ineffective. How can we optimise? The digitalization of modern society …
Best Practices in Generating Referrals For Your Practice
In today’s times, competition has reached new heights. Even if a medical practitioner is great at clinical skills, to outshine direct competition faced from other private clinics, it is necessary to market himself well. Marketing does not need to be an expensive campaign. Few but hard hitting and time-tested techniques can help to increase the …
The Costs of Running a Hospital in India
Medicine today has reached heights never even imagined before. Medical research and development has helped make life more precious and built hopes in the hearts of patients. In today’s rapidly evolving world, it has helped the medical field to grow by leaps and bounds. Diseases which were considered fatal in previous times can today be …
Why Should Doctors Use A Medical Billing Software?
Modern healthcare is a complex system that integrates different services and activities not necessarily entirely pertaining to medical and by all means, not free of charge. Health costs money, so regarding medical side, practices must organize their finances and management. Billing Software is Time Saving The medical billing process is an intricate interplay between the health care …
Best Practices in Managing Associate Doctors
An associate doctor is a licensed health care professional. He is permitted to practice medicine under the supervision of a licensed physician. He is responsible for patient education and enhancing care of patients1. He is trained to perform a wide range of medical services in every medical and surgical field2. The history goes back to …
Best Practices in Relocating Your Medical Practice
If you are a practicing physician and have your own medical practice, you are well aware of the difficulties faced in starting a new medical practice. It requires tremendous patience before patients start flowing in. Relocating your medical practice can be an equally daunting task especially if one is planning to relocate to a completely …
Why Doctors Must Use An Appointment Scheduling Software
Medical practices are complicated structures with many responsibilities. The approach each physician chooses, to maintain timely communication with his patients, is crucial for earning trust, building rapport and increasing the number of the patients drawn to the practice. Disadvantages of Manual Scheduling Practices that are engaged in manual scheduling of appointments and follow ups suffer logistic disadvantages. Filling …
Why You Should Hire a Medical Practice Manager
Introduction In the days of yore, medicine required little management. A doctor would set the appointment, examine the patient, prescribe medicines and a compounder or receptionist would dispense them. With passage of time, healthcare has become more structured, rules and regulations have changed and the world of medicine has come under strict laws where paperwork is …
5 Mistakes Your Practice Should Avoid – Managing Patient Records
Until recently, Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems were actively being used by only some of the most sophisticated doctors and hospitals. However, at the moment, as a result of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act’s “Meaningful Use” inducements, portion of the American Retrieval and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), organizations are …
Setting up a super specialty hospital in India
A superspecialty hospital is a place where each one of us has been to, even before qualifying as a doctor; we were received in this place as tiny ones. Doesn’t this make a hospital the most important requirement in a human population? A super specialty hospital focuses on the treatment of specific illnesses. The quality …